Empire of the Dead: Blissful ignorance AAR

[Anatoli]

This weekend I introduced Empire of the Dead to my friend Thomas, he has the rules but had not yet played a game. So I put together lists of roughly 150 shillings (starting point for a campaign) and used the contents of the Gentlemen's Club and Vampire starting boxes  which have everything you need (and reach the starting points with no problem) and that is a rare thing when it comes to starting boxes.

The lists were

Gentlemen's Club
President with light pistol
Vice President with light pistol
2x Membership with hunting rifles
2x Membership with heavy pistols
1x Membership with light pistol

Vampire clan
Graf with sword
Consort with knife
Guardian with sword
1x Thrall with light pistol
2x Thrall with hunting rifles

The scenario was "Blissfull ignorance", a fun scenario where the game uses civilians wandering about the table - not knowing that they are about to get attacked by the forces of evil. As my gang was "evil" and Thomas Gentlemen "good" our objectives were to kidnap/rescue as many civilians off the table while trying to prevent the other player to achieve his goal. Each kidnapped/rescued civilian was worth 5 shilling in victory points (and as usual extra points for inflicting casualties/surviving the scenario).


Check the full AAR and more pictures on my blog:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/01/empire-of-dead-blissful-ignorance.html#more

[War In 15MM]

Good looking board!  Richard

[obsidian3d]

Seconded! I've had the starter boxes and rules for months now, but haven't even finished painting the first box. I may have to something I dislike, and play a few games with primer-only models just to get a few folks interested.

[abdul666lw]

 :-*Beautiful terrain indeed!

Your previous experience leads me to wonder if one could play EotD with 18th C. miniatures (at least one great 'fan' faction *had* to be already there, anyway! ).
It would require a 'downgrading' of the modern and steampunk weapons  proposed in the rules, but for play balance 1 or 2 'major characters' of 'human' factions could receive 'Lacepunk' weapons with the stats of the modern / VSF ones? For instance Greek fire-throwers (historically known by the Byzantines), 'handgun' versions of Puckle's machine gun (would be quite similar to the Remington Model 1858 but more cumbersome) and of course Mr Franklin's Galvanic Weapons.


Btw could someone identify the 2 'undead Marines' *there* (sorry for the extremely poor quality of the image)

(the figurine on the left is from Alternative Armies).

[Furt]

Nice game and report.

Btw could someone identify the 2 'undead Marines'

They are from Black Cat Bases.
http://blackcatbases.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=437_599&sort=20a&page=16

[abdul666lw]

Thanks a lot!



From Alternative Armies:


(unfortunately the épaulettes are anachronistic for the mid-18th C.  )